-Caveat Lector- >From http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/0010/11/A44251-2000Oct11.shtml Group denies offering to buy babies Source: AAP|Published: Wednesday October 11, 1:52 PM A Sydney organisation today denied accusations it was trying to entice expectant mothers to sell their babies. The Department of Community Services (DOCS) is investigating the group, Caring Mums, which placed an advertisement in a western Sydney newspaper offering 'financial assistance' to expectant mothers who did not think they could keep their baby. Caring Mums also said in an email that the mothers could use the money to do a course or take a holiday. 'The amounts can de discussed if applicable,' it added. But the founder of the organisation, who identified herself only as 'Cathy', said the advertisement had been misinterpreted. 'It was a very innocent ad, it's the first time we've ever advertised,' she said. 'Perhaps we should have worded it, 'we personally don't (provide financial assistance)... but the agencies that you go through do'.' Assistance could include the cost of delivery, medical expenses or gifts, depending on the adoptive parents, Cathy said. She said Caring Mums was set up around two years ago and consisted of a group of around 20 women who had experienced adoption and wanted to provide other women with a free, sympathetic advisory service. She said Caring Mums did not make any profit from its work, describing it as 'a labour of love'. Cathy said it was impossible to number how many women the organisation had actually assisted. 'Really I couldn't honestly answer, because what we are about is providing women with information,' she said. DOCS director-general Carmel Niland said today the advertisement indicated that the practice of offering financial incentives to induce expectant mothers to give up their babies was occurring in Sydney. 'People are so desperate for babies that this is a practice that is common overseas,' Dr Niland told ABC radio. 'It appears from the face of it that someone is trying it here ... (the ad) suggests that they are offering an inducement to the mother to relinquish the baby to them.' The department was treating the matter as a criminal matter and would hand it over to the police department's Child Protection Enforcement Agency if the concerns raised were substantiated. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
